There is no damage to the pro-choice movement here. Arkansas has an abortion ban. Women in states with similar abortion bans have been unable to get similar care. And frankly, it’s the case in lots more states than those where abortion is banned that you can’t get abortion care without insurance. 

Maybe it’s better than nothing (????) but this “exceptions” bill seems extraordinarily cruel on its own. 10 weeks for children under 13, and 8 for anyone 13 or older, which still, you know, includes children. A requirement that a woman who has just been traumatized by rape go to a sexual assault center, which may…

If you see this horrible person out and about, and you do not harass her and make her life at least temporarily miserable, you’re a traitor.

Wow, what a retort! Just ignore the substantive argument about how you insist only chromosomes determine gender. Well done, you obviously went to the 4 year old school of arguing: “Nuh uh! Doodyhead!”

You didn’t say that your definition of men is someone with XY chromosomes, and that “people with XX chromosomes are, by definition, women”?  You should scroll up to the post you did on 2/23/23, at 9:25 p.m., because someone with your screen name definitely said those things, and I don’t think it’s a “huge leap[] in…

The companies that make ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine presumably also wanted to make money.

I don’t think it’s an issue of fragility. At best it was a poorly delivered monologue with a questionable premise that sounded an awful lot like it was giving credence to bullshit conspiracy theories, leading up to a weak punchline that didn’t undermine, as far as I can tell, the bullshit of the premise. Sometimes…

I believe a thing you said because I’m not of sound mind?

Please don’t feel sorry for me! The effect of my beliefs is I’m not an asshole to people for no good reason. If that’s insanity, I’m fine to be insane.

Yeah, it has always been a core tenet of feminism that gratuitously trying to break up someone else’s marriage because the wives do not wait hand and foot on their husbands. Or at least, that’s my understanding of the Straw Man Fallacy school of feminism. Not sure how many third wave feminists think this.

Number one, incomplete understanding of how to use quotation marks. 

You keep saying this but I’ve never said anything close to this. It’s almost like you’re assuming the absolute worst intent in everything I say. It’s really weird.

So you would demand to see proof of “weirdos” chromosomes if they told you their gender? What the fuck does that even mean?

So, when you encounter a person, before you accept what pronouns to use or what gender to refer to them as, you demand to see proof of what chromosomes they have? That’s a very weird definition of a “woman” for you to have, since I’m almost certain you can’t actually confirm anyone’s gender based on that definition.…

Fair enough. You’re the expert, I should probably stop trying to lecture you about your job, I suppose.

Okay! I mean, by your account seems like a lot of effort and disruption trying to make using these not painful for the actors that does call into reasonable question the necessity, but I’m not as invested in corset preservation as you are.

This feels like it’s just a summary of the article that is masquerading, for some reason, as criticism of it.

Well, that’s not true, obviously, unless your definition of “men” doesn’t include trans men for some reason (who are men, by definition), and besides that is not the point. The point is “women” have not been erased from these discussions, even though, even from a purely cis perspective, describing them as “women’s…

No no no. The only way women will ever be equal is if we reduce them and define them exclusively with regard to their anatomy and biological function.  

Overturning Roe v. Wade has always been a fringe, unpopular position, even after years of conservatives calling abortion murder and Democrats always clearing their throats by insisting that in addition to being safe and legal abortion should be “rare.” (This is one reason why arguments against things like “defund the…